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For all you know someone has root on your system, you may also be making any computer forensics more difficult by muddying the waters (in an activity perspective). Even if you didn't restoring from backup is the sensible solution rather than editing lots of files.

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Re^6: trouble with regular expressions
by yitzchak (Sexton) on Nov 08, 2012 at 06:28 UTC
    What is this "backup" thing of which you speak?